Chapter 13 : Land Use Activities, Indigenous Biological Diversity, and Natural Inland Wetlands*

13.1 Land Use Activities

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13.1.1 Objectives

Objective 13-1: Accelerated erosion* - regulation of vegetation clearance*, land disturbance*, forestry* and cultivation*

The regulation of vegetation clearance*, land disturbance*, forestry* and cultivation* in a manner that ensures:
  1. accelerated erosion* and any associated damage to people, buildings and infrastructure^ and other physical resources of regional or national importance are avoided as far as reasonably practicable or otherwise remedied or mitigated, and
  2. increased sedimentation in water bodies^ as a result of human activity is avoided as far as reasonably practicable, or otherwise mitigated.

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